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  Lauryn Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hill as she now likes to be called, is a Hip-hop/Soul/World/Folk artist, and record producer, initially establishing her reputation as the most visible and vocal member of The Fugees, then continued on to a solo career releasing The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
Hill's acting roles included the TV show As the World Turns (as "Kira Johnson" in 1991), and the film Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, the latter of which showcased her vocal abilities.
On December 13, 2003, Hill shocked officials at the Vatican by denouncing "corruption, exploitation, and abuses," in reference to the child molestation of boys by Catholic officials in the United States of America and the cover-up of offenses by Catholic Church officials.
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 Encyclopedia: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill (born May 26, 1975) is an American hip-hop singer, initially establishing her reputation as the most visible and vocal member of The Fugees.
Soon after, Hill was sued by two musician who claimed to have been cheated out of full credit and compensation for their assistance on the album.
Hill, the female member of The Fugees -- the best-selling rap group of all time, who sold 17 million copies of their 1996 sophomore effort The Score -- does just fine on her own.
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 Lauryn Hill: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill---Ink Blot Magazine
Lauryn Hill's first exposure to the spotlight came via an Amateur Night appearance on "It's Showtime At The Apollo" when she was 12.
Lauryn is only human - as she tells us over the course of 16 beautifully constructed hip-hop hymns, and she's been in the same predicament you have.
The Columbia-educated Hill focuses on her street education (her miseducation) on this debut, a collection of observations made through the course of her extraordinary life.
www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/Lauryn_Hill.htm   (556 words)

  
 Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill - GoSale.com
Lauryn Hill has won a total of 8 Grammy Awards including 2 with the Fugees, 1 for her work on Santana's album "Supernatural" and 5 for her solo masterpiece -The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill-.
Produced by Lauryn herself, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is a deeply personal album, running the gamut from affairs of the heart to socio-political issues, set against a sonic backdrop displaying the remarkable talent of this young native of South Orange, New Jersey.
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is evidence of her self-assured attitude as a well-rounded artist and studio technician.
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 Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill by Lauryn Hill (lyrics & reviews)
Lauryn Hill was just twenty-something when she released this stunning solo debut -- a recording that far exceeded the previous Fugees' effort.
Hill's individual artistry is undoubtedly a top priority for her; although I did not like her 2002 "Unplugged" near as much as her debut, it's still a pretty respectable record, since it shows the musician as her fans know her -- as an independent, African-American female who has much to say.
Miseducation focuses equally on Lauryn Hill's life (especially the birth of her child) and social concerns about the present and future.
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 The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Music at Shop Ireland
Lauryn is a deeply spiritual and religious woman, who has been transported from a tough childhood in the ghetto's, to a life of wealth and stardom.
The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill is a classic record, which is up there with albums by artists such as Stevie Wonder's and Bob Marley as one of the most influential and ground-breaking records in its category.
Hill was a bit too selffrighteous, as can be seen on the part of India Arie (although I dig her vocals).
www.shopireland.ie /music/reviews/B0000248SW/3   (1278 words)

  
 Lauryn Hill : The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
Though the Fugees had been wildly successful, and Lauryn Hill had been widely recognized as a key to their popularity, few were prepared for her stunning debut.
The social heart of the group and its most talented performer, she tailored The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill not as a crossover record but as a collection of overtly personal and political statements; nevertheless, it rocketed to the top of the album charts and made her a superstar.
Hill, of Haitian heritage, rhymed in a tough Caribbean patois on the opener, "Lost Ones," wasting little time to excoriate her former bandmates and/or record-label executives for caving in to commercial success.
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 VH1.com : Lauryn Hill : Biography
Hill wrote, arranged, or produced just about every track on the album, which is steeped in her old-school background, both musically (the Motown-esque singalong of "Doo Wop (That Thing)") and lyrically (the nostalgic "Every Ghetto, Every City").
Hill also faced a lawsuit from two musicians who claim they were denied full credit for their work on the album.
In an interesting twist, Hill's album proved to be such a commercial and critical success that it shed doubt on the Fugees' future.
www.vh1.com /artists/az/hill_lauryn/bio.jhtml   (496 words)

  
 Lauryn Hill: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill: Pitchfork Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Hill compliments these vignettes with her own lessons, eloquently expressed in earnest, thoughtful and introspective language.
Hill definitely sticks to what she knows-- her previous work with Aretha Franklin serves her well on the '60s R+B rave-up, "Doo Wop (That Thing)"-- but she does manage to throw us some surprises.
In "Superstar," Hill compounds that challenge with one of her own: "music is supposed to inspire." She adeptly answers both of those challenges.
www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/h/hill_lauryn/miseducation-of.shtml   (443 words)

  
 The History of Rock Music. Lauryn Hill: biography, discography, reviews, links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Lauryn Hill, the female vocalist of the Fugees, started a solo career with The Miseducation of (Columbia, 1998), an album that conquered both critics and audience.
Hill's versatile, booming voice (that absorbs and internalizes elements of rap, soul crooning, gospel melisma, jazz scat and girl talk, is the voice of an entire generation.
Lauryn Hill, la voce femminile dei Fugees, iniziò la sua carriera da solista con l’album The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill (Columbia, 1998), che conquistò sia critica che pubblico.
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 Boston.com / A&E / Music / Lauryn Hill tops Stockholm jazz fest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Hill, a former member of the Fugees, won five Grammy Awards in 1999 for her album, "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill." In 2002, she released "MTV Unplugged 2.0," which interspersed folk-style songs with nine spoken-word interludes in which she talked about her personal and artistic problems.
Singer Lauryn Hill sings at the charity concert for tsunami victims in Kuala Lumpur on March 19, 2005.
Hill will perform at the Stockholm Jazz Festival, to be held on the banks of the downtown Skeppsholmen island in July.
www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2005/04/25/lauryn_hill_tops_stockholm_jazz_fest   (226 words)

  
 AskMen.com - Lauryn Hill
With exceptional talent, incredible fashion sense, and timeless beauty to boot, Lauryn Hill is an artist that can claim intelligence and hard work in addition to her powerful voice.
Lauryn Hill is an explosion of talent and beauty; she basically took over Aretha Franklin's title as Queen of Soul with her break-through album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
Lauryn Hill has blazed a trail to the top of the charts taking the world by storm.
www.askmen.com /women/singer/21_lauryn_hill.html   (268 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Lauryn Hill returns to the limelight   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
NEW YORK (AP) — Lauryn Hill's long freeze-out of the public is beginning to thaw.
Hill, whose 1998 solo debut The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill sold millions and won her a record five Grammys, has been largely MIA since.
Hill's last recording was 2001's MTV Unplugged— a soul-searching breakdown of a performance where she confessed things such as, "I find it hard to say that everything is all right."
www.usatoday.com /life/people/2005-07-12-lauryn-hill_x.htm   (495 words)

  
 The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill - Review - Killing Me Softly With Her Songs
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is without a doubt one of the finest albums of the 1990’s to be recorded by a fl woman.
It was written by Lauryn Hill as a tribute to her new born child.
Lauryn Hill almost raps instead of singing, showing us just how diverse her voice is. The verse flies by in a haze of rap, and builds to a catchy hook and chorus.
www.dooyoo.co.uk /music-records/the-miseducation-of-lauryn-hill-lauryn-hill/1009436   (1929 words)

  
 40. Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Lauryn Hill first gained recognition as the frontwoman for the Fugees, whose second album The Score - itself a landmark fusion of hip-hop, reggae, rhythm and blues - hijacked pop radio with its covers of "Killing Me Softly" and "No Woman, No Cry" and went on to sell 17 million copies.
Hill pulls this off by obliterating almost all existing boundaries in hip-hop (especially those set up to women), bouncing from smooth soul to defiant rap in the same song.
Similarly, Miseducation, even after the gushing critical accolades, the wall of comparisons and a year of consideration, still remains true, ultimately, to Lauryn herself.
www.nudeasthenews.com /90s/reviews/secondlaunch25/40lauryn.htm   (388 words)

  
 SECTION 3 - lauryn hill "the miseducation of lauryn hill"
Lauryn Hill of the Fugees goes solo for the first time.
She mentions the industry types who told her to "look at your career they said/'Lauryn, baby, use your head,'" but she decided to have the child, and she's completely thankful that she made the choice to keep her child.
Lauryn resists the modern norm of sampling other's music, and goes the true musical and artistic route of creating 13 great songs.
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 Lauryn Hill: The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill - Køb Musik: Totaltiorden.dk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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Lauryn was in rare form and seemingly at the peak of her creativity.
Lauryn Hill's album greatly contributed to the ever-expanding world of hip hop artistry.
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 Salon Entertainment | Sharps & Flats
Hill shined even with the boys crowding the spotlight, though they managed to be more than Pips to her Gladys Knight -- all that ego-driven pushing and shoving gave the record its rude, crackling life.
Lauryn pens, plays and produces almost every song, conveniently neglecting to put Pras and Wyclef on the guest list at the studio door and proving she can catch a fire without them.
Hotter than July and hard-core enough to put a tear in your eye, "The Miseducation" is Lauryn's "Songs in the Key of Life," and like Stevie Wonder at a similar peak, Hill invokes the entire history of fl pop just to write her own chapter.
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 CONNEXIONS MUSIC --- REVIEW LAURYN HILL THE MISEDUCATION OF LAURYN HILL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Lauryn is very multitalented, stringing together gospel, hip-hop, pop, R&B and jazz to create a classic that transcends genre.
The glue that holds the album together are audio scenes from a high school in which Lauryn doesn't show up to class and thus misses out on a lesson.
Hence, "miseducation." Although I'm pretty good when it comes to attendance in school, I wouldn't mind missing a day or two to listen to her miseducation.
www.connexionsmusic.com /archive/records/10lauryn.html   (188 words)

  
 Imprint Online: New Revolutions - Lauryn Hill: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Former Fugees vocalist Lauryn Hill releases her first solo album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill just in time for that last-minute Thanksgiving shopping.
Lauryn gives tribute to her son, Zion, in the aptly titled "To Zion." She explores pregnancy and childbirth in this touching R and B track.
Hill has released an album of varying music styles, not just purely rap, which is a good thing because she couldn't rap a Christmas present.
imprint.uwaterloo.ca /issues/100298/6Arts/New_Revolutions/newrevs02.shtml   (311 words)

  
 Review - Lauryn Hill : The miseducation of Lauryn Hill
As L-Boogie Lauryn Hill achieved world fame together with Wyclef Jean and Pras Michel as the Fugees.
On Lost ones Lauryn gives us a Jamaican flavoured hiphop tune based on Toots Hibbert's "Bam bam" and on "Forgive them father" - with a guest appearance by Shelley Thunder - she uses the riddim of Bob Marley & The Wailers' "Concrete Jungle".
Lauryn delivers a very strong album here, which can be taken as an example by a lot of her male colleagues.
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 NME.COM - Reviews - The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
This is the cultural imperative around which Lauryn Hill's remarkable solo shot pivots.
It's to Hill's credit, however, that emotional heroism prevails over poor-superstar whingeing, most unavoidably on the frail lullaby 'To Zion', where she serenades her son Zion and details the professional pressure on her to have an abortion with stark candour.
Hill writes, arranges and produces virtually everything on this long and involving album with the kind of creative control and sure-footedness most artists wouldn't dare dream of.
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 Retro Classic: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill published by SOHH.com
Lauryn's solo album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill was complete in every way - featuring skills, soul, and substance in the exact needed quantities.
Miseducation opened with "Lost Ones," a bare-boned percussion driven track over which Lauryn spit curare-tipped lyrical darts about cats getting caught up in the paper chase and ignoring the deeper, more important aspects of life.
Hopefully, her current hiatus from the game will be over soon, and she returns to the scene real soon with more of that vintage, L-Boogie, horizon-expanding hip-hop.
www.sohh.com /article_print.php?content_ID=5273   (598 words)

  
 Lauryn Hill :: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill :: Ruffhouse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Whomever said that Lauryn's new album was going to be wack because it's mainly an album of song as opposed to spoken rhymes is about to choke on those words.
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is a celebration of what it is to be Lauryn Hill.
One could interpret this as Lauryn not being in a certain "class," not really a Hip-Hop artist nor an R&B artist nor a soul artist, but rather unique in her own essence.
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 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Years before reinventing herself as a half-hearted hip-hop folkie and releasing an album, the widely despised Unplugged 2.0, emblazoned with MTV's logo, Lauryn Hill was actually a respected artist, releasing her solo debut The...
Lauryn Hill is a bonafied hip-hop superstar, and one of the few artists who remained true to hip-hop while simultaneously being incredibly successful on the mainstream.
Lauryn Hill is the biggest superstar that never was.
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 SOHH.com / Daily Hip-Hop News / SOHH Exclusive: Lauryn Hill Disrupts Backstage Area & Gives Odd Performance in ATL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Hill's handlers claimed the star didn't want people looking at her and anyone who was still backstage during her arrvial had to face a wall.
Hill made her unfashionable entrance into the Georgia Dome with her entourague, demanding the entire backstage area be cleared and that everyone drop what they were doing and scurry into the nearest nook or cranny.
After being greeted to a standing ovation, Hill hardly strayed from her notes while reciting a poem entitled "Motives and Thoughts." After ending the poem, she straightened her papers, told the audience "Thank you" and revealed a brief grin before leaving the stage.
www.sohh.com /thewire/read.php?contentID=7200   (774 words)

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